Leaked medical report vindicates Anwar, says PKR

KUALA LUMPUR, July 28 - Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim's supporters say a leaked medical report that state his accuser was not sodomised backs his claim of innocence, as his legal team meets to discuss their next course of action in the allegations, which mirror a similar chain of events a decade ago that cost him a chance to be prime minister.

Malaysia Today editor Raja Petra Kamarudin's claimed that Dr Mohamed Osman Abdul Hamid from Hospital Pusrawi found no signs that Mohd Saiful Bukhari Azlan had any injuries consistent with sodomy in a June 28 medical report. Saiful had lodged a report on that day that Anwar had sodomised him two days earlier and on other occasions when they travelled together abroad.

PKR secretary-general Salehuddin Hashim said the leaked medical report confirms the party's stand that the allegations against their de facto party chief are "without merit and politically motivated". He added that it further erodes public onfidence in the police investigations into this case.

"Why has this medical report has surfaced only today, over one month after the allegations were made, after Anwar spent a night in jail, and after the police have spent so much time and money on this case?" Salehuddin asked in a press statement issued this evening.

"There should be a complete disclosure of the "facts" of this case to the public. Anything less will further diminish the public's trust in the institutions of governance and in particular the integrity of the office of the Inspector-General of the Police," he added.

He also noted the reports that Dr Mohamed Osman had been interrogated by the police for three days and that as a result, the doctor and his family have since gone into hiding. "Every assurance must be given for his safety and protection," Salehuddin said.

Anwar lawyer Sankara Nair told The Malaysian Insider that the legal team will discuss the latest developments while the MalaysiaKini news portal reported that Hospital Pusrawi is keeping silent on the matter. According to the medical report from the hospital, Dr Mohamed Osman had told Saiful to go to a government hospital for a second opinion,

PKR released the medical report to the media after it first appeared in the Malaysia Today news portal.

When contacted, Raja Petra stood by what he wrote and specifically confirmed that Saiful showed no signs of being sodomised in the medical report, Dr Osman had been detained by the police and asked to change the findings of his report and is now in hiding with his family.

He declined to comment on whether he had personally met with Dr Osman, saying that whatever was written in Malaysia Today was all he was ready to reveal at this point.

-TMI